Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace today to face up to our mistakes and mourn accordingly. 

73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
74 Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!”
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Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to refrain from overcoming evil with evil

11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. 
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 
12 He looked this way and that way, and…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek after truth, to know you and understand you

20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, 
that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to speak the truth, whatever the consequences

69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
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12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.’

13 They soon forgot his works.
    They didn’t wait for his counsel,
14     …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to withstand ridicule directed at ourselves, but also to share the pain of others when they are ridiculed.

67 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him, 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to pass responsibility to others at the appropriate time. 

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. 
She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today always to keep ourselves in you, and away from the evil one.  

18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, 
but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him. 
19 We know that we are of God,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to choose our words well, particularly in pressure situations. 

63 But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

64 Jesus said to him, …

3 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the…

7 Our fathers were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
    that he might make his mighty power known.
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to know when to stay silent. 

But at last two false witnesses came forward 61 and said, 
“This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
62 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be creative in the way in which we face difficult situations.

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, 
“Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid turning away from you (to any idol) as our life is only found in you. 

16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, 
he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. 
There is a sin…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to speak the truth particularly when we are in conflict with others

59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death, 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two…

6 We have sinned with our fathers.
    We have committed iniquity.
    We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers didn’t understand your…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to have the courage to see things through to the end, whatever the consequences

57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, 
where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. 
58 But Peter followed…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow ourselves to be motivated by compassion. 

5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. 
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. 
She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. 
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Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek your will with all our hearts and minds, and in all our prayers

14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, 
that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 
15 And if we know that he listens to us,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow courage rather than fear motivate us today 

56 But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Then all the disciples left him and fled.

God is our refuge and strength,
    a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
    though the mountains are shaken into…

2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
    or fully declare all his praise?
3 Blessed are those who keep justice.
    Blessed is…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid the temptation of living in secret.

55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, 
“Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? 
I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into your hand those things which are beyond our ability to  sort out

3 When she could no longer hide him, 
she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. 
She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank…